1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[Cyrus]

Wow, your taking it veeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly.......

[Rilder]

Wow, your taking it veeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly.......

This makes it funner, especially when you get Established AI Factions that are actually able to fight you.

On that note I'l probably have to pull out of Greece in my Romani campaign, I have a vicious fight with Kart-Hadast coming up, which may be a bit of a pain. They have three stacks (known) available to fight, one on Korsim fighting my garrison legion, (full of elite African pikemen.)

The Consular legion just deployed and is heading into battle.

[miotas]

Wow, your taking it veeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly.......

This makes it funner, especially when you get Established AI Factions that are actually able to fight you.

On that note I'l probably have to pull out of Greece in my Romani campaign, I have a vicious fight with Kart-Hadast coming up, which may be a bit of a pain. They have three stacks (known) available to fight, one on Korsim fighting my garrison legion, (full of elite African pikemen.)

The Consular legion just deployed and is heading into battle.

Yeah, i surprised myself actually when i realised what the year was, in my romani camaign i've basically conquered everything north and west of italy bar the british isles and all of the islands in the med bar kypros and all this by the year 230bce. I'm enjoying my baktrian one more though so i think i will start another romani one after i feel i'm done with the baktrian one.

[Shadowwalker]

@Teucer:

This looks very promising.
Looking forward to further screens (and of course a beta).

[Raygereio]

Hayasdan campaign. 270BC-210BC
EB 1.2 on BI

This has been a pretty fun campaign so far and it looks like I'm going to finish this one. I'm busy with the persian reforms right now.


(I didn't get a picture of 215BC)

minimods:
-Ferromancer's BI installer
-Traitchanges (combat experience: blooded 1 command, veteran 2 command, grizzeld 3 command, STHE 4 command & removed command penalty from lover of beauty)
-Spoils of Victory
-Win Conditions
-No giant trees
-Activated units: Dosidataskeli and Dubosaverlacica and Ordmalica
-Darth Stalin's Roman Units
-TWFanatic's PhalanxMod

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

-Aedui: Won the Aedui-Averni civilwar, held against the Romani, but eventually lost against the Sweboz juggernaut.
-Arche Seleukia: they ignored me untill I broke our alliance when I completed the pan-caucasus reforms. At that point, the Arche declared war and started besieging only Armavir (while ignoring all other cities). This enabled me to easily amass an army and attack them (targetting the cities needed for the first Persian reforms, cutting the Arche in half).
While still mighty, the Archy isn't much of threat anymore; they did get the Cataphract Reforms and have started recruiting Thorakitai Agematos Basilikou in Syria, but their most developed cities (those in their western holdings) are - besides me - also fighting against Pontus, Ptolemaioi, Makedonia & Koinon Hellenon.
Their eastern holdings - while also not that well developed are also fighting against Baktria and the terrible Saka.
-Averni: Lost their chance at writing history and is now trying to survive. Funny bit of AI diplomacy: when the Averni began to lose against the Aedui, they became the protectorate of the Romani. When the Lusotannan came and started pushing the Romani back, the Averni became their protectorate. And now that the Sweboz have arrived, guess who the Averni turned to this time for protection? I'm actually impressed by this.
-Baktria: did pretty well in the beginning, but got overun by Saka. Attempted several times to get the Indian cities, but failed against the strong garrisons. Baktria itself did rebel from the Saka back to Baktria several times, but that was more of a curse then a blessing - especially the last rebellion as that one gave them a halfstack of Armoured Indian Elephants (!!) sending their already weak economy to the grave. I'm expecting Saka to kill them off soon.
-Casse: Haven't done anything special.
-Epeiros: Fiercly fighting for dominion over Greece with Makedonia and Koinon Hellenon, the fighting has also spilled out of Greece actully and onto Asia Minor!
-Getai: Got a rude awakening from Makedonia. When the Maks had more pressing concerns to the south, the Getai expanded a bit, but soon got a bloody nose from the Romani to the west and is now fighting with the Sauromatae to the north; no clear winners there yet.
-Karthadastim: Got kicked out of Iberia. Entered in a bloody war with the Romani over Sicily. At some point they remember having boats and invaded central Italy several times (joygasm!). Eventually they fell before the mighty Romani war machine.
They then took avantage of Ptolemaioi's distraction to the east and invaded them, seem to be doing pretty well.
-Koinon Hellenon: Took avantage of Makedonia's going-up-north-and-leave-our-soft-belly-unprotected-strategy. Is now fighting with both Makedonia and Epeiros over Greece with no victory in sight.
-Lusotannan: United Iberia and kicked some Romani ass. It'll be interesting to see if they can win against the Sweboz.
-Makedonia: Went up North in a badly prepared manner and allowed Epeiros and the Koinon Hellenon to become threats. Is now busy paying for miscalculations from the past, more precisely; they're losing, but it seems they do have a stronghold in Asia Minor that can hold out.
-Pahlava: *sigh* oh, the disapointment. When they went on their "Nomad! Whoo!" spree and started taking the steppes, I was happy; I could already picture them attacking me from the North! Then their conquered holdings rebelled back to Sauromatae and the Pahlava AI seems unable to deal with that, it just kinda died. No moving armies, etc. Anyone know of way to get them going again?
-Pontus: Doing pretty well. Became my allies once the Arche declared war on me and remained friendly. I am however getting tired of their diplomates constantly trying to bribe my cities, so I'm going to conquer the treacherous scum. I already have my Arkahen Arkah make a tour of his realm together with an entourage of assasins, killing all Pontus diplomates they're coming across.
-Ptolemaioi: I am at a loss of words at how poorly they are doing. I expected them to become huge once I took the Arche's strength away, but instead this happened.
-Romani: did pretty well, got their polybian reforms as a reward for winning their punic wars. Are now bearly holding their own against the barbarian onslaught.
-Saba: Doing pretty okay. They maybe just field skirmishers and other light troops, but they're fielding a lot of them!
-Saka: Has become the mayer eastern powerhouse; constant rebellions are wrecking them however. It'll be interesting to see if they can overcome that, or if the Arche can mount an effective attack against them now that they're somewhat weaker.
-Sauromatae: Got overun to the east by Pahlava, rebellion saved them however. Now the behemoth from the steppes is busy attacking rebels, Getai and Makedonia to the west, all of those are holding the Sauromatae back however.
-Sweboz: Ah, the european powerhouse. Nothing I can say about them really.

[Rilder]

Romani 188 BC.

Finally getting to the end of the Second punic war. Hannibal is the current Carthagian Faction leader, but I think he's come a bit to late to help much...

Second Makedonian War is about to begin, probably because Makedon got thrown out of Anatolia.

Bactria... Excuse me while I beg for mercy.

[anubis88]

My Pontos campaign.

Early on the seleucids and ptoly's became allies, but thankfully the seleucids always accepted my ceasfire offers, and after a short blitz of tarsos and antiocheia i managed to get some money, and claim the crimean peninsula...

the strongest faction is probably macedon, who were my allies, but then backstabed me... now i'm allied with almost everyone around macedonia, since they all fear them... when they backstabed me i quickly conquered ancyra, nicomedia and ipsos, but lost tarsos...

I just won the last year probably the greatest battle in my carrer. The macedonian FL suddenly attacked cheronesos and i had a preety weak army guarding it but somehow managed to defeat their really awesome army. They had 3 units of thraikan rhompaioi or sth, 4 of reformed phalanx 2 bosphoran archer + 125 men of the faction leader with 3 silver chevrons... I had 12 men left standing, including 2 family members... If i had lost the battle i would probably lose the game, since the crimean is an extremly important income source for me. It was probably the greatest battle i ever won

P.S. i've never seen the seleucids take Chingu

[Elcmar]

I'm kinda amazed the KH have managed to survive with Makedon so dominant!

Sounds like you had one of those truly epic victories anubis88 - gotta love 'em

[Cyrus]

Anubis, yor map is very weird. Mine looks nothing like it, i'm talking about the terrain. Why is that? Is it just the detail of the campaighn map?
Oh and Rilder would you tell me what the diplomatic situation is on your campaign?
Also I would love to be able to fight against such a worthy buch of enemies, look at the getai, the lusos, the sweboz and the ptolies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would you please upload that save? I usually get too tired too soon of a campaign to actually get strong enemies. Please!

[Rilder]

Anubis, yor map is very weird. Mine looks nothing like it, i'm talking about the terrain. Why is that? Is it just the detail of the campaighn map?
Oh and Rilder would you tell me what the diplomatic situation is on your campaign?
Also I would love to be able to fight against such a worthy buch of enemies, look at the getai, the lusos, the sweboz and the ptolies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would you please upload that save? I usually get too tired too soon of a campaign to actually get strong enemies. Please!

Diplomacy: Bactria is at war with Saba and Saka, + one other I think. (not Ptolmaios)

I'm at war with Carthage, Makedonia, and Averni, while Allied with Epeiros and Lusotannon.

Dunno the complete diplomatic situation though.

Edit: DL the save here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=4...db6fb9a8902bda

(note, theres some legions being transported at sea)

[Aemilius Paulus]

Anubis, yor map is very weird. Mine looks nothing like it, i'm talking about the terrain. Why is that? Is it just the detail of the campaighn map?

He is using RS (Roma Surrectum) textures. Google it or go to TWC where you should find it. Heck, you can find plenty of references to them on this forum as well, after a Forum Search.

[Mediolanicus]

He is using RS (Roma Surrectum) textures. Google it or go to TWC where you should find it. Heck, you can find plenty of references to them on this forum as well, after a Forum Search.

The link is in the EB1.2 mini mod pack thread. You can download it there without DL'ing or installing the mini mod pack itself.

[Hotseat_User]

grrr, sorry for my horrible paint-skills here is my current KH on BI.exe



I was busy pushing the Maks northwards(s?) around 260 when the Epirotes attacked my garrision at Rhodes. They failed hardly but because I gave them some 40k Mnai in 270BC to hold back the red hydra - they also failed hardly - I took the chance to get Ambrakia and their main-Mics. After that, they pushed north and got those two illyrian provinces. Just last round the stupid Syracuseans rebelled to them but I had just destroyed everything there, because the romans made my days with (Ceasefire-TradeRights >>> attack Syracus)³.

The Maks on the other hand hardly tried to get Pergamon as it was independent while conquering Byzantion, Nikaia and last round Tylis. The annoying AS stealed it in front of them ( btw. they also attempted to get Rhodos but two stacks were owned by my navy while a third with 5 phalanxes was destroyed by a mixed 2/3 stack of silverchevroned levy hoplites with one FM and one unit of ClassicHoplites / two akontistai and 2 archers .) and now I think they gonna attack me soon. Hopefully I can resist those phalanxes <----<(-_-;<)

Oh and then, to finish my briefing, I thought of conquering Kallatis to get those SkythianHA's but there is a downfighted but silverchevroned 3/4 stack with the SauroLeader inside so I'm currently preparing a raid at the city northwards to set some confusion and then pulling the Sauro-garrision out of MY Kallatis

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Look at the Epirotes and Maks. One round before I took the screenshot, I thought "ohh my, hopefully they don't attack me." But as one can see, some Aiakides?!? guy is attempting to get them their capital back.

[anubis88]

as they said, i changed to the RS textures to have a fresh look at the game

[Mediolanicus]

The world: 150BC

1. Senatus Populusque Romanus, including the client kingdoms of Mauretania, Numidia and Odrysai, the indepentent city states of Massalia, Emporion, Syrakousai, Athenai and Kallatis, the tribal confederacy of Helvetian tribes, the Scordisci clan and the semi-autonomous regions of Lusitania, Galaecia, Celtiberia, Rhaetia, Noricum and Getia.
2. Confederacy of various Northern Iberian and Southern Celtic tribes.
3. Aedui Confederacy
4. The Treveri
5. Various British tribes
6. Various Belgae and Celto-Germanic tribes
7. Various Germanic tribes
8. Independent Boii tribes
9. independent Getae and their client Boii tribes
10. Maure and other Breber tribes
11. Garamantine Kingdom
12. The Military Alliance of the city states of Olbia and Pantikapaion and subjagated Scythian tribes
13. The Steppe Satrapy of Tanais
14. Sauromatae, Roxolani, Yancai, Aorsi and free Crimean Scythian tribes
15. Kingdom of Pontos, including the allied city states of Mytilene, Rhodos, Pergamon and Halikarnossos and the client states of Syria, Phoinike, Ioudaia and Palmyra
16. The Satrapy of Lazona
17. Parthian Empire
18. City State of Seleukeia
19. Ptolemaic Empire
20. Kingdom of Saba and client kingdom of Nabataia
21. Kingdom of Baktria, including the client kingdom of Sind and the Saka client tribes
22. Yuezhi and Wusun steppe tribes

[penguinking]

Really cool expansion- you'll get great Pontic and Persian wars. Did you aid either of them in any way?

[Tyrfingr]

The possibility for The Mithridatic Wars is great, go for it!

[Mediolanicus]

Really cool expansion- you'll get great Pontic and Persian wars. Did you aid either of them in any way?

I helped Pontos a bit indirectly by raiding along the Nile and thus weaking the Ptolies.
They did the rest on their own.

Right now I'm playing a defensive war against Pontos, but once I've secured my border with the Aedui, the Pontic war will really kick off!

[Elcmar]

Seleucid Campaign Winter 270bc


Decided to simulate an early collapse of the Arche, RP'd that Antiochus Soter kind of went a little senile in his old age and made some really bad decisions which basically lost most of the empire and alienated most of the old client kingdoms (let everything but antiocheia rebel at the start). Antiochus II (Theodorus) now rules in all but name - keeping the father stuck in Antiocheia, and am starting to re-assert Syrian influence (taken Damaskos and Galatia). Looking forward to progressing with this campaign

[Hotseat_User]

hehe, Elcmar - quiete an interesting idea but i wonder how much dept you will be in about 10years ...

[Karo]

Here's my Hayastan campaign in 217BC

the Yellow death has almost crushed the Selceudics, that's why I'm kicking their ass very hard now so they'll learn their place.
The AI in Europe is doing really awesome only Eiporos has been destroyed the rest of ht efctions are alive and kicking.

I've to say I'm now sharing a border with pontos, Makedonia and HS for a decade or so and they still haven't attacked me very weird. And Pontos being my ally hasn't back stabbed me yet.

[Elcmar]

hehe, Elcmar - quiete an interesting idea but i wonder how much dept you will be in about 10years ...

Heh i've already had to give myself some debt-clearing money just to keep the story going, but things are picking up, albeit slowly - the ptolies were nice enough to offer me a ceasefire, trade rights, and some mnai - probably felt sorry for me Also helps that i'm keeping a small enough army at the moment - making full use of the native phalanxes and peltastai!

[IrishHitman]

Northern Front (Formerly the Getic Front):
The Getai hold one settlement after a massive pincer offensive with combined Macedonian and steppe forces. Meanwhile, the Germans seized the rebel settlements that I didn't. Furthermore, Sarmatian raids have started, but are easily repulsed. Due to the German and Sarmatian threats, I have to keep three large armies in the former Getic homeland.

Western Front:
The Lusotann attacked as predicted, and the Alps have turned into the Battle of the Somme.
Constant battles and sieging of Segesta in a complete stalemate are the order of the day.
This stalemate will soon be broken, as I have sent both Macedonian and steppe armies to the front.
The steppe forces have just entered the Italian province, and the Macedonian forces are in Illyria nearby. I expect to take Massalia within three seasons.

Eastern Front:
Captured Antioch and Sidon from AS, two turns after they took them from the Ptollies.
Lost them to rebellion two years afterwards after I failed to reinforce them.
Mazaka was taken by a fullstack Pontic army after a long, crippling series of sieges by AS.
Another wave of armies is being trained in the Eastern Aegean regions at present to take Pontus down, as the AS threat is now minimal, thanks to Pontic and Hai actions.

Elsewhere:
Ptollies and Carthage are locked in a titanic war in Africa, as the screenshot shows.
Saka, Parthia and Bactria are in stalemate with only the AS benefitting.
The Saba are strangely stagnant, which is weird considering that my diplomats spot Saba armies as deep as Babylon on a regular basis.

[athanaric]

IrishHitman:

How did the Swêboz capture Eburonum?? Did you help them or did the "roving defender" commit suicide? I've never yet seen any faction (except myself playing Swêboz) seize Eburonum.

[schlappi]

After a long time of EB absence, i tried a KH campaign

My main roleplay objective is to support the free poleis. When Emporoion and Halikarnassos rebelled, i shipped forces there to secure their "independant" status. On one such voyage, a large force got stranded on sicily, revenging hiero of syracuse and just now took lilibeo, after defeating numerous carthagian armies. PLayed on VH/H, every battle is quite costly, especially against those damn elite phalanxes.



Standings in 219 bc:
(currently at war with carthage in iberia, ptolemaic egypt in asia minor and hayasdan over trapezous)

[Elcmar]

After a long time of EB absence, i tried a KH campaign

My main roleplay objective is to support the free poleis. When Emporoion and Halikarnassos rebelled, i shipped forces there to secure their "independant" status. On one such voyage, a large force got stranded on sicily, revenging hiero of syracuse and just now took lilibeo, after defeating numerous carthagian armies. PLayed on VH/H, every battle is quite costly, especially against those damn elite phalanxes.

Standings in 219 bc:
(currently at war with carthage in iberia, ptolemaic egypt in asia minor and hayasdan over trapezous)

Sounds like a pretty cool campaign - i'm liking the AI expansion too

[Tarkus]

Wow...looks like a titanic struggle is brewing in the East, schlappi. Pahlava all the way down into the Arabian peninsula??!! I'd love to see their battles with the Bactrians.

[Lovejoy]

schlappi: I like the Roman expansion! :D

250BC Makedonia

[anubis88]

My Pontos campaign 180 BC.



The farthest i've ever played a campaign. Playing with BI, it's extremely fun. In italy rome lost almost all of the southern peninsula and Sicily from Carthage, but then i gave them a lot of money, and they kicked the carthies back. The fun thing is that rome controled all of sicily, corsica, and sardinia, but the carthaginians launched a massive 4 full stack force back at them and destroyed everything in their path.

In the west the Lusotanna are monsters, but carthage manages to get invasions at them with the hopes of conquering parts of the peninsula. In the East the first superpower was macedonia, conquering everything in their path. They've left the getai with one province, but i gave them a lot of money also, and after some macedonian city's rebeled due to my spies they've conquered them. I also managed to pillage the coast of Greece and give the regions to rome. Hopefully the romans will start a massive war with macedonia so that i may finally have my Mithridatic wars.

In the further east the Yellow death is destroying everything in it's path. I'm hoping that by giving money to their adversaris they may fight back... Armenia backstabbed and pissed me off so i launched a huge invasion and finally left Kotais and Trapezous (which was mine from before) hugely fortified so they don't start any funny things. Interestingly the Ptolys keep attacking me through antiocheia which i gave to Armenia. They're allies and seemengly have the military acces.

I left the KH only with pergamon to represent the Kingdom of Pergamon, but then Rhodes and Krete rebelled to them from Ptolys and Carthage, and later i saw that in carthage they have 3 full stacks, all with at least 4 experience mainly of spartan hoplites, phalangites and thorakites. If they start a war with macedonia they will probably destroy them. Incredible.

For my part i tried to expand as little as possible, just enough to have the money to hold my many fronts.

[schlappi]

Update, Map in 211 b.c.

Rome took Syracuse and Lilibeo from me and Carthage steamrolled the iberian peninsula, including my well-sized and decently defended polis of Emporoion. It will be a long time before i can take revenge, since i am busy fighting Macedon (side by side with my allies, the Epirotes), Pontos, Hayasdan and Ptolemaic Egypt.



Playing the last eight years took longer than the whole game before and every battle takes careful planning to minimize losses of remote armies.